GSFA Online Food Category 04.2.2.1

Updated up to the 46^th Session of the Codex Alimentarius Commission (2023)

Food Category Details

Frozen vegetables (including mushrooms and fungi, roots and tubers, pulses and legumes, and aloe vera), seaweeds, and nuts and seeds (04.2.2.1)

Description:
Fresh vegetables are usually blanched and frozen.¹ Examples include: quick-frozen corn, quick-frozen French-fried potatoes, quick frozen peas, and quick frozen whole processed tomatoes.

This page provides information on the food additive provisions that are acceptable for use in foods conforming to the food category.

This food category is listed in the Annex to Table 3. Unless specifically indicated below, food additive provisions implied by Table 3 do not automatically apply to this category.

GSFA Provisions for Food Category 04.2.2.1

INS No.	Food Additive or Group	Max Level	Notes	Defined In
260	Acetic acid, glacial	GMP	Note 262 Note 263	04.2.2.1
300	Ascorbic acid, L-	GMP	Note 110	04.2.2.1
509	Calcium chloride	GMP	Note 29 Note 324 Note 323	04.2.2.1
516	Calcium sulfate	GMP	Note 29 Note 324 Note 323	04.2.2.1
150d	Caramel IV - sulfite ammonia caramel	50,000 mg/kg	Note 161 Note XS294 Note 92	04.2.2
330	Citric acid	GMP	Note 262 Note 265 Note 242 Note 264	04.2.2.1
	ETHYLENE DIAMINE TETRA ACETATES	100 mg/kg	Note 21 Note 110	04.2.2.1
270	Lactic acid, L-, D- and DL-	GMP	Note 264 Note 262	04.2.2.1
296	Malic acid, DL-	GMP	Note 265	04.2.2.1
621	Monosodium L-glutamate	GMP	Note 201	04.2.2.1
	PHOSPHATES	5,000 mg/kg	Note 33 Note 76	04.2.2.1
900a	Polydimethylsiloxane	10 mg/kg	Note 15	04.2.2.1
332(i)	Potassium dihydrogen citrate	GMP	Note 29	04.2.2.1
	SULFITES	50 mg/kg	Note 136 Note 76 Note 44 Note 137	04.2.2.1
331(i)	Sodium dihydrogen citrate	GMP	Note 29	04.2.2.1
333(iii)	Tricalcium citrate	GMP	Note 29	04.2.2.1
332(ii)	Tripotassium citrate	GMP	Note 29	04.2.2.1
331(iii)	Trisodium citrate	GMP	Note 29	04.2.2.1

Items in uppercase (e.g. PHOSPHATES) refer to food additive groups.

Food Chemistry, H.-D. Belitz & W. Grosch, Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg, 1987, pp. 572-576.

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